Tag: Richard Spencer

A lot has been said around about what President Trump is or isn’t, and Blacks, immigrants and women especially have had strong opinions about his agenda toward anyone who isn’t a rich, white male. But a Quinnipiac University study released numbers to back it up. Trump’s history prior to taking…

White supremacist group Vanguard America vandalized a Black History Month poster at Middle Tennessee University last week with propaganda, along with “plastering college campuses with fliers, demonstrating the trend shows no signs of stopping,” according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The civil rights and human relations organizationreleased a report on…

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates seemingly had enough of Twitter when Cornell West said in his rant against him that he “fetishizes white supremacy,” which drew a tweet of support from white supremacist Richard Spencer. Coates has deleted his account of more than 1 million followers. A prolific writer on race, Coates…

Another series of protests by white nationalists took place in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. “Charlottesville 3.0 was a great success,” said Richard Spencer, a white supremacist and well-known figure of the “alt-right,” in a video posted to Twitter. “It was a lot of fun.” The rally took place on…

Confederate statues are a rallying point for today’s neo-Nazis and white separatists. President Trump confirmed this by making it a central point of his meltdown in the Trump Tower lobby earlier this week. The difference between George Washington and Robert E. Lee is taught in elementary school history lessons. But…

I saw the president’s press conference live yesterday because I had a premonition that he was going to snap back from what he was apparently forced to read from a teleprompter on Monday. And he did, to a degree that I didn’t anticipate. President Trump said it plain and clear:…

UPDATE: 2:17 p.m. ET Aug. 16, 2017 On Wednesday, The University of Florida denied Richard Spencer’s group request to have him speak on September 12. “Amid serious concerns for safety, we have decided to deny the National Policy Institute’s request to rent event space at the University of Florida,” university…

Home rental service Airbnb has been cancelling the accounts of people who booked rentals in relation to a far right wing rally in Charlottesville, Va., a move that has angered white nationalists and prompted First Amendment debates. Airbnb confirmed the cancellation and reported in a statement to NBC29 that the…

The Southern Baptist Convention officially condemned “alt-right white supremacy” on Wednesday a day after an original resolution was shot down. “[We] decry every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy, as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” the resolution states. Further, members agreed that they “denounce and repudiate white…